Mission Statement

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international, not-for-profit, democratic organisation with the tasks of supporting the OSM project, running and protecting the OSM database, and making it available to all. The OSMF membership is open to all who want to support the project and participate in the OSMF’s democratic process.

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is there to protect the OSM data to keep it Free and Open.

The OpenStreetMap Foundation represents the OSMF members, and wants to grow the membership.

Core Values

The Foundation's core values for OSM are (this list is not meant to be exhaustive):

We want to make the best map data set of the world

OSM Data is available under a Free and Open licence to everybody

OSM is powered by its Community. Engage positively with the Community, be a good and respectful neighbour and assume good intent.